ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,685, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Managing storage resource requirements for storage objects" was invented by Christopher Black (Santa Clara, Calif.), Feng Wang (Los Altos, Calif.) and Matthew Fay (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sizing resources for a replication target, including: determining an initial resource requirement for a replication source; determining a retention resource requirement for the replication source; and reporting, in dependence on the initial resource requirement and the retention resource requirement, a total resource requirement for replica...